At least you could. I'm outside the US so it didn't work for me.
I no longer buy DVDs since I'd prefer blu-ray, but definitely don't want to wait for stuff to be released here (I don't want dubbed audio, or translated boxes, etc) and they refuse to let me buy outside Europe. Region-free blu-ray players are incredibly expensive, and because firmware updates may be needed, they may stop working completely.
So basically there's stuff I cannot get *at any price* (even if I'm willing to put up with shipping, import tax, etc). However, when the news talk about piracy they say "this was downloaded a million times, and the estimated lost revenue caused by piracy is XXXX". Fuck off.
China's GDP is about 1/4 ours and yet they are putting out as much if not more than we are. That's the inefficiency of a developing economy and weak emissions standards.
So you'd say the problem is inefficiency and not the fact that they have the factories now?
At least their pollution comes from providing cheap goods to the rest of the world and not driving SUVs.
Of course, if I buy a physical copy, I can get it for £28, or £30 if I want it (almost) guaranteed on release day, so you do have to wonder what EA are thinking with that download price..
That's easy: "Let's make an extra profit from the people who can't wait an extra day, and make sure we don't piss off retailers by setting a price that could actually be seen as competition."
They are trying to get a good Zero Punctuation review from Yahtzee.
Nah, Bill Wright visits slashdot from time to time and he read many Australians whining about their lousy Internet conditions... so he thought he'd give them a 5-day head start.
It also gives us the rest of the world a chance to whine about our lousing gaming conditions.
Its all about your skill as a programmer. If you're average, then there are plenty of average coders willing to work for less in India.
I read this argument often here in slashdot...you seem to believe that all Indian programmers are average or below average (compared to American programmers) so not being outsourced just a matter of working hard.
Guess what, because their population is almost 4x the US' and generally speaking they have more serious unsatisfied needs, your solution will not work. In fact it will do the opposite, as everyone (worldwide) will work harder therefore giving more for the same money.
I don't have a fair solution to the global outsourcing problem but it can't be 'working harder'. Time for other things is important, you know.
You're right. For being American you should be entitled to a service which the ISP's obviously cant afford.
I'm not an American nor haven't lived in the US for the past 6 years.
Anyway, you don't really believe that ISPs can't afford to have _some_ customers use more than those 250 Gb, do you?
1) They were given (lots of) money to upgrade their infrastructure.
2) They advertise flat rate, high speed internet access. I'm sure this works for them for 90% of their customers, and not so well for the rest - this is true for almost any business. Anyway, if you sell flat rate, expect the people that sign up to demand what they are paying for. If they didn't want to use it in the first place, they'd look for pay-as-you-go alternatives.
Anyway _I_ didn't ask how to deal with the cap. But I don't think it's a ridiculous question - it is if you believe that the only possible answer is 'budget your traffic, disable javascript', and the like.
However there _are_ other options. For example, if you use p2p (which most likely anyone having a problem with 250 Gb/monthly does) you can move a lot of your traffic to a rented server, and let it do all the hard work. This also solves other non-technical problems.
I am so sick of these whiney posts.... wah wah wah, I might be capped soon.
How is being pissed off about getting worse service (for the same money) than you used to whining?
Listen, you live in a (large, ok) island, many many km away from everything else and your country population is less than Texas's - so it's reasonable to expect higher costs in internet access, shipping, etc.
Maybe it is _you_ that needs to get over that fact, instead of calling whiners to people who has their service capped for no reason other than corporate greed.
What's next, you are going to say that Amazon charges you 10x for shipping that it does to New York residents and that they shouldn't complain if their fees doubled overnight? Or maybe you pay a lot more for plane tickets to everywhere but Zealand?
I donÃt have any limit but i upload/download around 2 TB/month, I have a no limit 100/100 Mbit connection that is shared by 2 peoples. I have static IP and I am allowed to run servers. I pay 99 swedish kronor for the connection, that is like 15,10 USD
OMG, is that guy for real?? I mean, I haven't still read through all of the replies, but... trying to un-UNIX Linux? Either he is one of the biggest morons to ever roam the earth, or he deserves a special place in the Trolls hall of fame...
Don't know, but after getting the old Al Viro's treatment he hid under a rock and I hear he's still there.
I'm so bored that I actually read the post in the mailing list and all the replies in the thread.
Just to be at the same time informative and to the point, the 7 replies so far have been as positive as this patch is in the linux kernel mailing list a few years ago.
I thought it was standard procedure to first kidnap and then request a ransom. Why would people pay a ransom -provided they feel really threatened by the email - if noone is kidnapped yet? They can always pay ransom when the kidnapping is actually done?
You can pay whenever it is convenient to you. However, let me explain you the options so you can make an informed decision:
- Paying in advance is hassle-free for all parties involved. You also get a coupon, 20% off the next ransom.
- Paying in full after the actual ransom has a 30% processing fee.
- Paying in monthly payments has no surcharge, but we will return your loved one monthly, too.
They are providing exactly the same service (a level of identity trust) as CAs.
The mechanics are different, no signing certs, but the role is the same.
OK, so you go to the DMV or wherever IDs are issued in your country and get one. Then you show it to someone in the street and ask for a description of that ID.
Do the DMV and the guy in the street have the same role? One is issuing the ID (and making sure they give it to the right person) and the other is just looking at an ID someone else issued. The person in the street is not even checking if the guy in the picture is the same as the guy holding the ID.
If needed, I could try harder and use a proper car analogy.
The idea of "notaries" is essentially the same idea as having the Certificate Authorities: a third party who is considered trustworth and sufficiently dilligent that the third party would take the appropriate measures to verify something before signing off on it.
No it's not. These notaries don't sign anything and don't guarantee anything.
They just tell you what they see (which is useful because it's unlikely than a man-in-the-middle between the client and the site is also between the notary and the site), and what the saw before (so you can check certificates that the site used before you first visited it).
Who picks these people/companies?
Probably not important, because you check 3 or 4 (out of thousands) notaries around the world before deciding whether a certificate looks OK or not. So it's not easy to setup a "bad notary" that actually works.
Please explain why you think his unwillingess to do that is the fault of anyone but him (as you attempt to imply in your post).
I don't imply that. What say is that jail is not an appropiate (or useful) punishment for this crime, which I gotta say it's absolutely victimless.
Well, not victimless, because apparently the 'victims' are going to get a lot of money they wouldn't get otherwise.
By the way, if you don't feel like conversing with someone then just don't - threatening not to converse with someone who doesn't agree with you doesn't seem useful (except that I don't care, I'll take the risk of sounding stupid to you).
A multitude of studies have found that recidivism rates are rarely helped by prison time in general for any criminals.
Of course. But for a murderer the society benefits by having him in jail for a few years, regardless of whether the time is going to help him or not.
Now, this guy is not a threat for anyone now, but could be when he gets out.
If he made 1/4 million dollars by selling old games, I think giving that money to whoever holds the copyright now is more than fair compensation, considering that they didn't lose any money to begin with. If you feel like adding some extra punishment, make him work some hundreds of community hours.
Jails (worldwide) are already crowded. Inmates cost money. At least let's see it from a practical point of view.
So according to you it doesn't matter which law you break and how?
This crime doesn't deserve jail. Jail for this guy is going to make things worse for everyone involved including society as a whole, because he will come out of jail a worse man.
Are you out of your mind? Going to jail for selling old games?
This is the kind of sentences that actually turn normal people into real criminals. What is he going to do when he gets out of jail, no job, probably unable to get one, out of money, etc?
Terabyte hard drives, CD/DVD burners, Broadband providers and portable music players all owe a good portion of their success to the business of "copyright infringement."
Indeed. In Spain it is assumed that consumers buy this stuff with piracy in mind and they make everyone pay just in case. Buy a new hard disk, pay 12 euros (plus tax, to add insult to the injury) that will go to the 'authors'.
Now, I won't claim that I bought my last Tb for my own pictures, home made movies, etc. But the following industries are getting nothing of my 12 euros: Porn, sports (I downloaded the last Wimbledon match for example), software...
I wonder what is going to happen when they demand a piece of the cake.
Maybe I am just way off here, but it sounds like what they want to do is to create a unique hash ("secure string") from a file on your computer.
I haven't RTFA but my guess is that the point is that the file is on only on your computer... so if you lose the file you just have to launch your p2p client:-)
I guess this will lead to a new type of dictionary attack...
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Don't bitch, if you had something else to do other than reading this thread you would be doing it :-)
Besides, this kind of 'news' are to slashdot what a bad referee is to football: You hate him, but he gives you a (socially accepted) reason to yell.
At least you could. I'm outside the US so it didn't work for me.
I no longer buy DVDs since I'd prefer blu-ray, but definitely don't want to wait for stuff to be released here (I don't want dubbed audio, or translated boxes, etc) and they refuse to let me buy outside Europe. Region-free blu-ray players are incredibly expensive, and because firmware updates may be needed, they may stop working completely.
So basically there's stuff I cannot get *at any price* (even if I'm willing to put up with shipping, import tax, etc). However, when the news talk about piracy they say "this was downloaded a million times, and the estimated lost revenue caused by piracy is XXXX". Fuck off.
So you'd say the problem is inefficiency and not the fact that they have the factories now?
At least their pollution comes from providing cheap goods to the rest of the world and not driving SUVs.
Not having the rat^H^H^H awesome bar makes it score big.
When someone (probably with enough cash) says this they get +5 insightful inmediately.
Now, if someone with no car said "if only people didn't expect the goverment to build roads" he would get -1 crazy.
You know, maybe if I didn't have to pay for the damn infrastructures so lazy people can drive to work I could save more money for my retirement?
That's easy: "Let's make an extra profit from the people who can't wait an extra day, and make sure we don't piss off retailers by setting a price that could actually be seen as competition."
Nah, Bill Wright visits slashdot from time to time and he read many Australians whining about their lousy Internet conditions... so he thought he'd give them a 5-day head start.
It also gives us the rest of the world a chance to whine about our lousing gaming conditions.
I read this argument often here in slashdot...you seem to believe that all Indian programmers are average or below average (compared to American programmers) so not being outsourced just a matter of working hard.
Guess what, because their population is almost 4x the US' and generally speaking they have more serious unsatisfied needs, your solution will not work. In fact it will do the opposite, as everyone (worldwide) will work harder therefore giving more for the same money.
I don't have a fair solution to the global outsourcing problem but it can't be 'working harder'. Time for other things is important, you know.
I'm not an American nor haven't lived in the US for the past 6 years.
Anyway, you don't really believe that ISPs can't afford to have _some_ customers use more than those 250 Gb, do you?
1) They were given (lots of) money to upgrade their infrastructure.
2) They advertise flat rate, high speed internet access. I'm sure this works for them for 90% of their customers, and not so well for the rest - this is true for almost any business. Anyway, if you sell flat rate, expect the people that sign up to demand what they are paying for. If they didn't want to use it in the first place, they'd look for pay-as-you-go alternatives.
Anyway _I_ didn't ask how to deal with the cap.
But I don't think it's a ridiculous question - it is if you believe that the only possible answer is 'budget your traffic, disable javascript', and the like.
However there _are_ other options. For example, if you use p2p (which most likely anyone having a problem with 250 Gb/monthly does) you can move a lot of your traffic to a rented server, and let it do all the hard work. This also solves other non-technical problems.
How is being pissed off about getting worse service (for the same money) than you used to whining?
Listen, you live in a (large, ok) island, many many km away from everything else and your country population is less than Texas's - so it's reasonable to expect higher costs in internet access, shipping, etc.
Maybe it is _you_ that needs to get over that fact, instead of calling whiners to people who has their service capped for no reason other than corporate greed.
What's next, you are going to say that Amazon charges you 10x for shipping that it does to New York residents and that they shouldn't complain if their fees doubled overnight? Or maybe you pay a lot more for plane tickets to everywhere but Zealand?
-1 bragger
Don't know, but after getting the old Al Viro's treatment he hid under a rock and I hear he's still there.
I'm so bored that I actually read the post in the mailing list and all the replies in the thread.
Just to be at the same time informative and to the point, the 7 replies so far have been as positive as this patch is in the linux kernel mailing list a few years ago.
You can pay whenever it is convenient to you. However, let me explain you the options so you can make an informed decision:
- Paying in advance is hassle-free for all parties involved. You also get a coupon, 20% off the next ransom.
- Paying in full after the actual ransom has a 30% processing fee.
- Paying in monthly payments has no surcharge, but we will return your loved one monthly, too.
hitman.
OK, so you go to the DMV or wherever IDs are issued in your country and get one. Then you show it to someone in the street and ask for a description of that ID.
Do the DMV and the guy in the street have the same role? One is issuing the ID (and making sure they give it to the right person) and the other is just looking at an ID someone else issued. The person in the street is not even checking if the guy in the picture is the same as the guy holding the ID.
If needed, I could try harder and use a proper car analogy.
No it's not. These notaries don't sign anything and don't guarantee anything.
They just tell you what they see (which is useful because it's unlikely than a man-in-the-middle between the client and the site is also between the notary and the site), and what the saw before (so you can check certificates that the site used before you first visited it).
Probably not important, because you check 3 or 4 (out of thousands) notaries around the world before deciding whether a certificate looks OK or not. So it's not easy to setup a "bad notary" that actually works.
I think this a promising idea.
I don't imply that. What say is that jail is not an appropiate (or useful) punishment for this crime, which I gotta say it's absolutely victimless.
Well, not victimless, because apparently the 'victims' are going to get a lot of money they wouldn't get otherwise.
By the way, if you don't feel like conversing with someone then just don't - threatening not to converse with someone who doesn't agree with you doesn't seem useful (except that I don't care, I'll take the risk of sounding stupid to you).
Of course. But for a murderer the society benefits by having him in jail for a few years, regardless of whether the time is going to help him or not.
Now, this guy is not a threat for anyone now, but could be when he gets out.
If he made 1/4 million dollars by selling old games, I think giving that money to whoever holds the copyright now is more than fair compensation, considering that they didn't lose any money to begin with. If you feel like adding some extra punishment, make him work some hundreds of community hours.
Jails (worldwide) are already crowded. Inmates cost money. At least let's see it from a practical point of view.
So according to you it doesn't matter which law you break and how?
This crime doesn't deserve jail. Jail for this guy is going to make things worse for everyone involved including society as a whole, because he will come out of jail a worse man.
Are you out of your mind? Going to jail for selling old games?
This is the kind of sentences that actually turn normal people into real criminals. What is he going to do when he gets out of jail, no job, probably unable to get one, out of money, etc?
Indeed. In Spain it is assumed that consumers buy this stuff with piracy in mind and they make everyone pay just in case. Buy a new hard disk, pay 12 euros (plus tax, to add insult to the injury) that will go to the 'authors'.
Now, I won't claim that I bought my last Tb for my own pictures, home made movies, etc. But the following industries are getting nothing of my 12 euros: Porn, sports (I downloaded the last Wimbledon match for example), software...
I wonder what is going to happen when they demand a piece of the cake.
I haven't RTFA but my guess is that the point is that the file is on only on your computer... so if you lose the file you just have to launch your p2p client :-)
I guess this will lead to a new type of dictionary attack...
A fucking link...
Which surely is not the case of these Apple employees, right?
How is a comment with AFL insightful? :-)
It's both lazy and inconsiderate to the usual slashdot readership.